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Jamborees next for some squads
• Byhalia hosting Saturday By BARRY BURLESON
Editor  | Photos by Barry Burleson
Stretching
Byers players go through some exercises prior to practice. |
Three football teams in Marshall County will take part in preseason jamborees this week. The
Marshall Academy Patriots go to Grenada Thursday night. Byhalia and
H.W. Byers will play in a jamboree Saturday evening hosted by the
Indians. “We’re making progress (in practice),” said James
Kimbrough, head coach of the Lions. “But we will get a little better
look at our team in the jamboree.” Keith Wicker, head coach at
MA, actually got an early look at his team against some competition
during scrimmages Friday at Tunica. The Patriots faced Marvell (Ark.),
Tunica Academy and Clarksdale Lee.  | Tackling
Marshall Academy players go through tackling drills in practice. |
“It went well,” Wicker said. “Nobody scored on us, and we scored on everybody. I was pleased. “I know we missed a lot of blocks, but I also know offensively we were pretty explosive at times.” He said he was pleased with his team’s effort on defense, too. At Kirk Academy Thursday night, Marshall will play North Delta at 5 p.m., Indianola at 6 p.m. and Kirk at 7 p.m. “We will see what we can do,” Wicker said. “It will give us an idea of how we match up with our district teams.”  | File photo by Barry Burleson
Indian chief
Coach
Markeith Washington and his Byhalia Indians will host a jamboree
Saturday. He said his team still has a lot of work to do before the
season kicks off August 20. |
Byhalia
High School will welcome four other schools for a jamboree on campus
Saturday starting at 5 p.m. Byers is scheduled to face Coldwater in
game two and Byhalia meets Port Gibson in the nightcap. Both the Indians and Lions shifted practices to 6 p.m. last week due to the extreme heat. “We’ve
been getting work in but not at the levels I want,” said Markeith
Washington, head coach of the Indians. “I’m not satisfied yet.” He said he hopes for a better week of practice leading up the jamboree. “It
will be hot again this week, and it will be hot when we play Saturday,”
Washington said. “But the season is about to start, and we still have a
lot we need to accomplish (in preseason work).” At Byers, Coach Kimbrough agreed that the heat has been slowing things down. “But we’re making progress,” he said. This will be Byers’ first year of varsity football.
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